Fuller FlibbleAs High Heels and Lowlifes enters cinemas, the writer of the film - and co-author of the sixth most popular episode of Red Dwarf ever according to a fan club poll - talks into the penguin's microphone.

I was a teacher, teaching English and drama to students in further education in a college
in Lewis. I'd been performing and doing odd bits of pub theatre and stuff, and I decided
that I wanted to write something. I was too lazy to spend six months writing a novel so I
started sending things off to the radio - Week Ending and so on - and never got
anywhere with that.

Then I watched Not The 9 O'clock News and thought it was contemporary and I liked it.
It was short sketches and I'd not thought about just doing that kind of thing, so I just sent
stuff in. I sent a few sketches in to the first series - not knowing anything about
television I didn't realise that they didn't record them, you know, the day before! (Laughs)

I got £12 a minute, and that was it. I just carried on writing for that show. Then I got
a letter from the Beeb about a new show they were doing called Three of a Kind
saying would I like to come in for a writers' meeting. I went to this meeting and I couldn't
get through the door because there were about a hundred writers there - anyone who'd ever
written anything! (Laughs)